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This battle was not difficult, Song Xuan's main force was placed in the imperial city, and most of those who stayed at the four gates of the capital were stragglers.

They are all private soldiers raised by Song Xuan, and they are not very loyal in themselves, but they only work for Song Xuan for a little money.Most of these people have not received formal training. They spend their days in the barren hills on the outskirts of Beijing, practicing riding and archery to their limit.It is a taboo for an adult prince to keep private soldiers. Who would dare to blatantly release these people for training and give others a clue to kill.

Facing Song Yuan's men and horses, these stragglers were simply vulnerable. As soon as the army charged, they surrounded the capital tightly.They attacked from all sides and attacked the four gates together. After a while, these people were overwhelmed by the beating, and they all abandoned the city and fled.

Ruan Yunqing led a small team to climb up the tower along the rope ladder, cut down a dozen of the recalcitrant skirmishers one after another, forced a bloody path, rushed down the tower, opened the closed city gate, and let Song Bin and others enter the city.

At this time, there were also people firing rockets at the east, west, north, and north gates. Song Bi was overjoyed when he saw it, which meant that the four cities were destroyed, and Nie Pengcheng and others also led troops into the city.

They had negotiated a long time ago. After breaking the city, they would directly kill and rush to the imperial city. Without giving Song Xuan and Empress Wei the slightest breather, they drove straight in and killed the golden palace in one fell swoop, killing all the traitors who committed chaos.

Now that the other three city gates have also been breached, Song Ren immediately ordered to attack Huanglong without stopping.

The city was full of depression, and even though it was night, one could see how the people had been living for the past month or so.

All the shops on both sides of Zhuque Street were smashed to pieces, and the valuables inside were robbed long ago. The people dare not go out, and every family cares about closing their doors. Those who have surplus food are better off, and those who have no surplus can only wait to starve to death. .Those who couldn't bear it and went out to look for food were either robbed of their money by stragglers patrolling the streets, or they were arrested and sent to the front of the battle to serve as arrow handles for others to resist crossbow arrows.

All the businesses are closed. Even if you want to buy some rice noodles at this time, there is nowhere to buy them.Those rich families suffered even more. Many people took advantage of the fire and robbed them, and under the guise of the government, they went to the rich families to collect food and money.It's fine if you don't resist, but anyone who resists will be beaten violently. How can the servants of the family beat those rascals who blackmail people all day long? Even the reporter had nowhere to look for anyone.

All the officials in central Beijing hid at home and would not open the door to anyone who came. Now it was really a critical moment. No matter which side they stood between Empress Wei and the First Prince, they felt terrified in their hearts.Except for those officials who were divided into cliques in the past and belonged to Shu Shangshu's party, the rest of them are all in the mansion, waiting to see who will win the battle.

In the past month, there has been a stalemate between Empress Wei and Song Xuan.Song Xuan had the troops of the Wucheng Bingmasi in his hands, and Queen Wei also had 5 troops of the Imperial Guard in his hands.The two sides started a tug-of-war in the imperial city. You came and went, attacked and fought, and the battle was evenly matched.

When Song Yuan and the others entered the city, Song Xuan had already entered the inner city of the imperial city and surrounded the entire forbidden palace.He ordered Empress Wei to let Concubine Shu out quickly, while Empress Wei stood on the tower, scolding Song Xuan for being ambitious and deceiving the emperor.

After two rounds of stalemate, Empress Wei asked Zheng Changchun to tie Concubine Shu to the high platform, and asked Song Xuan to withdraw immediately, or she would be burned to death.

Set up dry firewood on the Caifeng Tower, put Concubine Shu on the firewood, and poured several barrels of tung oil. Empress Wei stood in front of Concubine Shu with a torch in hand, confronting Song Xuan downstairs.

Song Xuan was so angry that he was furious. He was cautious and controlled by others. Since he sent troops, this battle has been fought in a futile manner.

After thinking about it, the more he thought about it, the angrier he felt. He had lived under the shadow of Song Ru all his life, and he couldn't compare to him in everything.It would be fine if they were very different from each other, but they are just one step away from their backgrounds to their aptitudes.

Don't look at this one step, it almost drove Song Xuan to death.Jealousy gave birth to hatred in his heart, and he made an oath since he was a child that one day he would ascend to the throne and completely trample Song Ru under his feet.

Now that it was about to be done, Song Xuan would not be willing to let him withdraw his troops at this time.I bowed my head and thought for a while, and looked at my mother upstairs in Caifeng Tower, and couldn't help crying.

Song Xuan got off his horse, looked at Caifenglou and kowtowed three times, crying: "Mother, the child is not filial. Don't blame me!"

After saying that, Song Xuan became ruthless, waved his hands and shouted at Zhu Chengda: "Siege the city!"

Zhu Chengda shook his head secretly, but it was too late to say anything at this time.The arrow is on the string, it has to be fired, and the only thing missing is this kick, can he say no to kicking?

Pointing to the Caifeng Tower, Zhu Chengda ordered someone to carry several logs as thick as buckets, and shouted: "Break open the city gate!"

Hundreds of soldiers fought together, and two logs hit the city gate in turn, and there was a loud bang, boom!Boom!Boom!

After several beeps, the gate of the city broke down.

Someone had already fired arrows from the top of the city tower, and countless logs were thrown down the city. Cannons fired one after another, and the soldiers who attacked the city were still fearless.While Zhu Chengda dialed Yujian, he led the troops straight into the city. The gunfire exploded around him, shaking people's hearts and minds. All the generals in the guard battalion, as long as they could breathe, were cut down to the ground.

There was chaos in the Forbidden Palace, and the screams kept coming. Chen Da, the commander of the Imperial Guard Battalion, protected the new emperor Song Ke and fled all the way south. He quickly led his troops back and rushed to the Caifeng Tower. Chen Da said to Empress Wei Said: "Mother, the rebel army has rushed in. The last general will take you to a safe place first, and hide for a while."

Empress Wei stood on the Caifeng Tower with a face as calm as water.The soldiers and horses under the city tower rushed in like a flood, and the eunuchs and maids fled back and forth. After a while, they were overtaken by the rebels and chopped off by the horses.Blood flowed like a river on the blue brick floor, broken arms and stumps rolled everywhere, dead bodies fell to the ground, and people who were still breathing couldn't stop struggling and crying. The imperial city, which was quiet and luxurious in the past, was like hell on earth in the blink of an eye.

Empress Wei smiled slightly, she ignored Chen Da who came to rescue him, and turned her attention to the pile of dry firewood.Empress Wei stared at Concubine Shu Gui, with a sneer on her face, and said with a sneer: "Didn't you always praise your son for his filial piety? Look, this son is really filial. His mother was put on the fire. How did he do it for the sake of his filial piety?" The throne is still coming to attack the city!"

Empress Wei sneered, and the laughter became louder and louder, and it seemed particularly penetrating against the background of tragic wailing.

Empress Wei laughed for a long time, and then asked Concubine Shu in a low voice: "If you want to say it, it's true. What kind of mother is not a mother? How can a mother be as important as that dragon chair with a dragon head carved on it. Don't you think so?"

After Queen Wei's words, she laughed again, and all the servants around her stood shaking their clothes in fright.

Concubine Shu Gui's face was ashen. She never expected that her son, who was always polite and filial, would give orders to attack the city regardless of her life or death.

There was a coldness in her heart, Concubine Shu Gui didn't recover from it for a long time.After being dazed for a while, Empress Wei's stern laughter came to her ears, and she suddenly came to her senses, turned her head and cursed: "Bah! Don't provoke our mother and son. You lost this battle, Xuan'er attacked the city He's here to save me!"

Concubine Shu's tears rolled down, she kept coaxing herself, as if she could erase the scene just now from her mind.

When Empress Wei heard the phrase "lose", an evil fire burst into her heart, "I didn't lose! I will never lose!" She picked up the torch that fell on the ground and was about to throw it at Concubine Shu Gui.

Yao Zhu was tied to the side, and could not help begging, "The empress, please don't kill my empress, the slave is willing to die for the empress, please be kind to the empress!"

Empress Wei walked halfway, turned around abruptly, and slapped Yao Zhu hard.She stared fiercely at Yao Zhu as if she wanted to eat people, and said through gritted teeth, "I can't spare you! Among these people, you deserve to die the most!"

Yao Zhu was frightened by the hatred in Empress Wei's eyes and took a few steps back. At this time, Empress Wei was really crazy, staring at herself, as if she wanted to eat her alive.Infinite hatred welled up from Empress Wei's eyes, Yao Zhu felt cold all over, and couldn't help shivering.

Empress Wei hit Yao Zhu, turned around and walked in front of Concubine Shu Gui.The torch in her hand was burning brightly, at this time the sky was dry and things were dry, and tung oil was poured on the firewood, as long as there was a spark, Concubine Shu Gui would be killed immediately.

Yao Zhu saw it at a glance, and couldn't care about anything else, and she didn't know where the strength came from. She struggled, broke free from the two little eunuchs who were holding her down, flew forward, and stood in front of Concubine Shu, not wanting to stop. Let Queen Wei light the fire.

Empress Wei hated Yao Zhu very much, and wanted to keep her to torture her, she refused to let Yao Zhu die so easily, and immediately ordered Zheng Changchun to say: "What are you waiting for? Why don't you pull her up! "

Zheng Changchun was so frightened by the chaos in front of him that his hands trembled, his hands and feet were in disarray, and he was in a mess underneath, killing and setting fire to grab things, there were shouts of killing everywhere, only the light of fire and blood could be seen everywhere. The courtyard is about to be looted by these bandit soldiers.Zheng Changchun had never seen such a battle before. He panicked. Empress Wei called out several times before he walked forward tremblingly, not to mention pulling people, even himself. I can hardly stand still.

Empress Wei gritted her teeth with hatred, pushed him away, and asked Chen Da to come forward to arrest him.

Chen Da looked under the tower, and Song Xuan's soldiers and horses were about to rush up the tower. He was so anxious that he hurriedly urged: "Your Majesty, let the general protect you and withdraw from the imperial city first. The brothers below can't stop you." How long!"

Song Ke also pulled Queen Wei's sleeves, and repeatedly persuaded: "Mother, listen to Commander Chen, let's withdraw from the imperial city first."

Empress Wei glared at the two of them, and said cruelly: "I won't leave! Even if I leave, I must first kill these two evils before leaving!"

Chen Da had no choice but to help him get the man.Yao Zhu refused to get up, she stubbornly scratched the ground, and blocked Concubine Shu with her body, several people couldn't hold back a weak woman, making Chen Da and the others break out in sweat.

The sound of killing downstairs was loud, and swords were on the verge of breaking out upstairs.At this stalemate, there was a sudden sound of horses stepping on luan bells from the direction of the outer city. Everyone was startled. Looking up, they saw Song Ren and Ruan Yunqing riding side by side, one black and one white, like two poles apart. The arrow of the string flew towards Caifenglou.